Machine for use in the manufacture of boots and shoes



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MACHINE FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES Original Filed May 12 1920 19 Sheets-Sheet 19 of awelt or the ball and curve leading to the deeply 45 lay smooth'a'nd-fiatover the bottom of the Patented Sept. 23, 1930' THOMAS H. SEELY, or

MACHINER CORPORATION, or PATERS JERSEY MACHD TE Fo 'Usi; n THE MANUFACTURE 01? score ANnsHoEs Applicationfiled May 12, 1920, SeriaI'No. 380,897. Renewed April 1a, 1928.

This invention relates to; machines em-,

ployed in the manufacture ofboots and shoes,

'and more particularly to lasting machines 5 shoe overthe bottom offthe last'or innersolei for laying the upper. materials ofa boot or by'repea'ted operations along different portions thereof. Machinesof this general type are known as hand method lasting machines,

an example i of which is disclosed in "United States Letters June '15, 1897, McFeely. j I r i 'In' lasting machines of the hand method type, a gripper is actuated to grip: and pull orupdraW the upper materials and to overdraw' or -lay them over the bottom ofthe last or innersole; and a Wiper'is caused to -move over the. upper: materials and wipe or press them into the desired lasted position Where they are secured in place by fastenings or tacks. The term shoe will beemployed hereinafter in its general sense to designate both boots and shoes, and the terms fastenings and"tacks willlikewisebe employed in the broad sense to designate any character of means that may bedriven into or through the upper materials'to hold them in lasted -position.- r i v v In lasting Welt orGroodyear shoes, it is now'the usual practice to last the sides of onapplication of. Ladd &

breast of the heel ona hand method lasting bed lasting machine. Thefastenings or tacks for helding the upper materials in lasted position along 'the sides of the Welt shoe are left upstanding or only partially driven for convenience 1 in subsequent re- In conforming the upper materials Goodyear shoe to the last along m'oval.

undercut shank portion at the inner side of ni'ethocl' machine, last the ends as Well as the sides,

the shoe, it issometimes desirable to .plait the "upper inorder that it may be made to Patent No. 584,744, granted the shoe and a portion at or. adjacent the against the metal bottom of the last Within the shoe. As part of the lasting means in either case, however, a Wiper s employed to take control of the upper and lay it smoothly uponor over the bottom of the last. In the hand l-method, machine for, lasting" Welt or Goodyear shoes, the wiper is usually ofa special type, Whereasfin the hand method machine for lasting McKay shoes, the iper is usually formed by the under surface of the tack carrier or slide. v :The present invention will of the shoe, hich in the case of a McKay shoe, is frequentlydone on the hand method laster. In lasting certain portions of the shoe, Where the upper is full, as for instance around the toe, it has been customary to give the gripper acturning and a lateral or side reach movement to piait the upper materials and cause them to lie fiat over the bottom of the lastor innersole. Each lateral or side reach 'movement' of the'gripper in one direcion, or. atcach side of the median line of the shoe, however, has been accompanied by a turning movement of the gripper in one direetiomso that the plait at each side of the v median line has been. invariably laid in accordance With the established relation be-v tween the lateral or side reach movementand the turning movcment'of the gripper in the particularmachine. V

In some styles of shoes, and in the use of some kinds of upper materials, it is desirable to cause the fullness of the upper to be formed in a plait or by turning movement of the gripper inone direction or the opposite, at the'same side of the shoe; The direction in I be described in i connection with a hand method lasting ma- MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS, ssieNoR To THE UNITED SHOE on, new JERSEY, A ooRroRArIon or NEW 

